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Apathy is a coping mechanism
And a surviving mechanism ; don't do anything (use up energy) if you don't need it like now.
Our brains are made for fruit picking and running in the jungle.
In a single day, I can't worry at the same time about LGTBQ rights, palestinians, Ukranians, animal abuse, 100000 diseases that need research, racism, facism, basic needs for the third world, police brutality, the state of democracy, a migration crisis, climate change, polution, and many many many more things.
It is just too much to handle. So when faced with the horrors of the world for the bazzilionth time a day, I just can't bring myself to care anymore. If I did, I would be in constant stress about everything that is going wrong with the world. Instead, I throw away the booklets I get from the charities I donate monthly to, I tell the collector at the door I can't spare any money for children in Palestine, and I scroll past the post about how many children were raped in Ukraine today. Hence, I will come across as apathatic.
But that apathy is a survival mechanic, since without it, I would go insane.
You are right, and it is usually just a (very moral eh) tactic to get your clicks. You aRe okAy with MurDer and Rape? If noT click "click bait article".
I have decided to follow seriously only one topic (the russian ukraine aggression, so I gonon the lookout myself for information), some others more on a surface level like LGBT+ where you don't need to know a lot about the topic to understand what's happening (it's quite straightforward, terfs are bad, let people be who they are ffs).
But again, if you don't engage in most of the "news" you are not a bad person, you just prive shady companies advertising money.
I’m. Tired. I wish I wasn’t.
It certainly has become one for me at any rate..
I used to care a lot about everything, and now I’m just so so tired of trying. Apathy feels like a poplar grove; just keeps growing, spreading, and outcompeting everything else until it takes over and ruins everything, because it takes an absolute ton of energy control spread.
I basically came to say this, but also that the cause is systemic.
When modern society, so thoroughly ravaged by late stage capitalism, requires you to spend the majority of your day working or doing chores and your leisure time is resting just enough so you can do it so again, there's no energy left to fight.
I can't say that those in charge are smart enough to do this on purpose, but it's definitely effective.